Dan Martell - April 13, 2015


How To Unleash Your Powerdisiac

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Dan Martell
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Travis Kalanick John D. Rockefeller Jay-Z. Eminem Ethan
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2 minutes

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213.14

Word count

573

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32

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What s your powerdeezy act? What s the thing that gets you pumped up and energized? What are the three things in your life that get you fired up and keep you going in the morning?

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00:00:00.640 What's your Powerdesiac?
00:00:02.720 You know, there's a great quote that's going to summarize everything I'm about to teach
00:00:05.040 you today, and it's, the energy of the mind is the essence of life, and that's from Aristotle.
00:00:11.760 You know, when I was first raising our first round of funding, I got some great advice.
00:00:15.960 One of our essentially quarterbacks for fundraising was a guy named Travis Kalanick, who's now
00:00:20.000 the CEO of Uber.
00:00:21.000 I'm not sure if you've used their service, but it's kind of awesome.
00:00:24.360 Anyways, Travis gave us a bunch of tips for going out there, meeting with investors, telling
00:00:29.640 our story, etc. But the one that I found the most interesting and probably the most impactful was
00:00:35.940 have your power song, right? I always like to call the power-deezy act, like the thing that got you
00:00:42.320 pumped up and energized. And for us, it was Numb and Encore by Linkin Park and Jay-Z. My co-founder
00:00:49.020 Ethan and I would be driving around Sand Hill Road, kind of, you know, driving his old 1997 Acura,
00:00:55.100 busting out Jay-Z and Eminem, sitting in parking lots before we met with the VCs and just get
00:01:00.760 pumped up. And I think a lot of times when you've got a sales call or you're about to hire a key
00:01:06.020 employee or you might be working on a partnership, you know, it's really good to kind of elevate your
00:01:10.360 state and get your energy level to a great spot. And that's the power DZAC. And there's three kind
00:01:15.240 of areas of your life that you can find these. For me, it's the music. It's songs. It's kind of
00:01:20.160 that tune that just reminds me how awesome life is.
00:01:23.420 For you, it could be working out.
00:01:25.660 First thing in the morning, as part of your morning ritual,
00:01:28.140 it could be kind of getting a sweat on, getting active,
00:01:30.540 getting really into it.
00:01:32.160 For a lot of people, it's CrossFit.
00:01:34.300 There's this joke that says,
00:01:35.240 how do you know somebody does CrossFit?
00:01:36.920 Well, they don't shut them up about CrossFit.
00:01:38.800 I don't know if you know anybody like that,
00:01:40.140 but for them, that's their power adisiac.
00:01:42.700 Other people, it could be talking with people,
00:01:45.360 conversations, they're extroverts,
00:01:47.620 So they get energized by those meetings.
00:01:50.440 You know, and it's really interesting just to kind of think about what are the things in my life that are high energy, right?
00:01:56.020 That really get me going to jump out of bed and really kickstart my day.
00:02:00.880 You know, the last one I want to leave you guys with is meditation or silence or taking naps.
00:02:06.460 You know, a lot of people, John D. Rockefeller, regardless how you like his politics about building that business Standard Oil or not, he took naps all the time.
00:02:14.160 A lot of great leaders are religious nappers, right? 1.00
00:02:18.180 Because they know that they're going to be going nonstop.
00:02:21.040 They need to find time to just take a nap and recharge.
00:02:24.220 And that's their power-deezy act.
00:02:26.280 So I wanted to share that with you because I know how impactful it's been for my life.
00:02:29.700 And I hope that you guys found that useful.
00:02:31.820 Leave a comment below and let me know.
00:02:33.860 If you don't have one, what's it going to be?
00:02:35.880 And if you do, what is your power-deezy act?
00:02:38.320 I want to challenge you to live a bigger life.
00:02:40.160 And I will see you next Monday.